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From: ron@brl-vgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
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Subject: Re: Re: Teaching students with GOTO
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Date: Thu, 31-May-84 12:58:28 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 31 12:58:28 1984
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GAK!  What makes you think that BREAK to the n-th power is better than
a goto to exit the loop.  It certainly is a lot clearer and easier to
find the label to which you are breaking, rahter than looking to see how
many loops you are in.  You just can't count indentation because BREAK
exits SWITCH, WHILE, and DO but not other blocks.  CONTINUE doesn't exit
SWITCHs.  As a stated in my previous message, just because you don't use
gotos don't think that you are writing structured code.  You can do some
pretty gross unstructured things even without gotos.

-Ron